I would like to set page margins (esp. bottom margin) in IBM Notes/Lotus Notes programatically.
When printing documents with a special form, the bottom margin must be lowered to have the complete form on one page.
You can set the page setup setting, e.g. print margins, for a complete Notes application using the File\Page Setup… in the menu manually. As far as I could discover, this settings are stored in the local client’s bookmark.nsf.
These settings don’t replicate.
They get lost, when you delete the workspace icon and re-add it to your workspace later.
I haven’t found any LotusScript, formula language nor Java command to set page margins for a document, form or application/database.
Even in the C api there seem to be no function to change print/page margins or change page setup settings.
I would like to have a procedure to change the print margins - or at least a way to set or change these settings in a document, form or application by manipulating items in a document or design element.
Subject: I also met this problem
I have searched this question on many web sites, but still couldn’t found the way to solve this problem, No one can solve this problem, IBM?
Subject: It has been a wishlist item for 20 years, or so.
Back in the Notes 3.0a days when I first became Notes Developer + more, this has been an item we wished for.
The problem is, as I understand from the IBM-side, is that even Notes are Document Centric its not Printer Centric !
Meaning, every user may have different (potentially every one) default printer - and the rendering of a Notes Form (ie. Document ) appears differently when doing Print (and Print preview).
The setting are stored in the ‘icon’ bookmark (or workspace) so if one could just programmatically ask:
Is the Printer Setup made ?
then you could invite the user for this native @command:
@Command( [FilePageSetup] )
after a nice prompt, inviting to the settings.
I imagine the ‘wonderful’ world of eClipse, Java Plugins etc, could do the trick, but I haven’t got to this steep learning curve yet !